Quotes About Acceptance

Dad, that's okay," she replied.

Not facing reality would have been to accept the idea that what's happening in our environment had to determine us.

Instead of trying to change him, we tried to stand apart—to separate us from him—and to sense his identity, individuality, separateness, and worth.

FRIEND/ENEMY CENTEREDNESS. Young people are particularly, though certainly not exclusively, susceptible to becoming friend-centered. Acceptance and belonging to a peer group can become almost supremely important. The distorted and ever-changing social mirror becomes the source for the four life-support factors, creating a high degree of dependence on the fluctuating moods, feelings, attitudes, and behavior of others. Friend

Look at the weaknesses of others with compassion, not accusation.

give me the courage to change the things which can and ought to be changed, the serenity to accept the things which cannot be changed, and the wisdom to know the difference.

Because we saw him as fundamentally adequate and able to cope with life, we stopped protecting him against the ridicule of others.

No control problems involve taking the responsibility to change the line on the bottom of our face—to smile, to genuinely and peacefully accept these problems and learn to live with them, even though we don't like them. In this way, we do not empower these problems to control us.

Mortal lives are not stones. They are not seas. For impermanence to judge itself by the standards of permanence is folly. Or it is arrogance. Life merely is what it is, neither more nor less. To deem it less because it is not more is to heed the counsels of the Despiser.

Perfection cannot endure in an imperfect world.

Soon Covenant was lost again; the complexities of the

All paths lead to death, she said when she found her voice. This the Worm merely hastens.

You've got it backward. You're doing it to yourself. Punishing yourself for something you didn't have the power to change. You can't forgive yourself, so you refuse to forgive anybody else.

If he meant to survive, he could not afford the luxury of grieving over lost hopes. He was a leper; all his hopes were false.

If you can blame sickness on somebody, instead of accepting it for what it is, then you can avoid being responsible for it. You don't have to try to end the pain.

We are mortal, and the visage of failure is heinous to us. But we are not required to succeed. It is required of us only that we hold fast in every gale and let come what may.

But he was dreaming. The way to endure a dream was to flow with it until it ended.

You fear to be in need—and to have your need answered. As do I.

What? Nothing, it's just ... you've been 'Galinda-fied'. You don't have to do that, you know?

El hermoso viaje de hoy sólo puede comenzar cuando aprendemos a dejar ir el ayer. STEVE MARABOLI, INVESTIGADOR

How many times does a man have to shave before his chin gets the message?

Let the past bury its dead.  Easier said than done.

None of us should judge anyone, only ourselves. Life is not infinite. A set time defines us all—then, just as the bones in the ossuary showed, to dust we return.

I ain't as good as I once was, but I'm as good once as I ever was.